We’ve heard for several days that the group — which includes real-estate developer Brian Bergersen, FreshPoint‘s Lucian LaBarbra, architectural firm Good Fulton & Farrell, UCR partner Jack Gosnell (who will handle leasing), Standard Fruit and Vegetable’s Ruthie Pack, The Richards Group and restauranteur Janet Cobb and son Blair Black, whew — had the winning bid. We asked Frank Librio, spokesman for Dallas City Hall, to confirm, at which point he sent the same statement Assistant City Manager Ryan Evans dispatched to Dallas City Council members earlier this week. It reads, in full:

The Farmer’s Market Privatization Review Team has finished their work and has selected Spectrum Properties as the winning developer. The next phase of this project will be complicated as several real estate and operational agreements need to be negotiated. This phase will take several months. It is always possible that agreements cannot be reached and it will be necessary to negotiate with the second proposer. Once agreements are reached, the Economic Development staff will brief the appropriate committee.

Spectrum is Bergersen’s company — the same one responsible for, among others, the Third Rail Lofts in downtown. And as Candace Carlisle pointed out in June, his group is proposing to build a $58-million mixed-use development that would include “street-level restaurant and retail, a 500-car public parking garage and 245 apartment units.” (A big parking garage, you say? Well, well.)

Messages have been left for Bergersen, who’s first on the city’s to-do list as it works through its checklist, and LaBarbra. But both are in meetings this morning. We’ll update when we hear from ‘em. But from the sound of City Hall’s note, well, no rush, right?

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